I am new to Ubuntu 14.04.
I installed ubuntu on a windows laptop as the second OS.
As I am new user, I created two mounting points in /mnt/.. and /media..
I tried to remove one, but I couldn't, it's confusing me while working.
How can I remove both mounting points and how to create new mounting points for external usb and windows drives?
My hard disk has three Windows partitions (C,D,E). On E, I took only some space of the available 100GB to install Ubuntu.
The procedure is that you first unmount any disks that may still be mounted:
sudo umount /mnt/...
(that is not a typo, the command is umount)
Then the directory /mnt/... is empty and can be removed:
sudo rmdir /mnt/...
Then you can make a new mount point elsewhere:
sudo mkdir /mnt/newmountpoint
and mount the disk there:
sudo mount -t auto /dev/[devicename] /mnt/newmountpoint
If that works, you can edit /etc/fstab so the disk will be mounted at the next reboot.
df will tell you the mount points of each of your currently mounted devices. As I said, if you want to change any mount point, you need to modify /etc/fstab.
Here is an approach how to make Windows partitions auto mounted in Ubuntu.
Run:
sudo blkid
You will see UUIDs of your partitions, the next is just an example:
/dev/sda1: LABEL="Recovery" UUID="B23613F43613B875" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="Windows" UUID="38CE9483CE943AD8" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="Data" UUID="519CB82E5888AD0F" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="00d7d951-2a35-40fd-8e5d-411bb824ff3b" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda6: LABEL="Ubuntu" UUID="6044b1d0-208e-4ab3-850d-03a92e1516fc" TYPE="ext4"
You shall take a UUID from your output which is corresponding to the partition you are going to automount:
sudo gedit /etc/fstab
For a general-purpose read-write mount, add this line to the end of /etc/fstab:
UUID=519CB82E5888AD0F /media/Data ntfs-3g defaults,windows_names,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
but change UUID to yours.
